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• Che Guevara

  Who was Che?

  21 July 2024, by KELLAWAY Dave

  Dave Kellaway reviews Allan Todd’s timely new book about Che Guevara
  “Above all, always be able to feel deep within your being all the injustices committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality a revolutionary can have.
  Create two, three, many Vietnams, (…)

• Che Guevara

  Che Guevara: Marxist Intellectual?

  15 June 2023, by TODD Alan

  An extract from the upcoming release “Che Guevara: The Romantic Revolutionary” by Allan Todd, published by Pen and Sword.
  Until relatively recently, most books about Che focussed almost exclusively on him as an adventurous travel writer, a romantic revolutionary and an exponent of guerrilla (…)

• Che Guevara

  Review: Farber and The Paradox of Che Guevara

  1 November 2016, by SOLENBERGER Peter

  Review: Samuel Farber. The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice. Haymarket Books, 2016, 120 pages + bibliography, notes and index, $16.95 paperback.
  IN HIS INTRODUCTION Samuel Farber explains why he wrote The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice. “To many of the contemporary (…)

• Che Guevara (obituary)

  Who Killed Che? – The CIA’s Death Machine at Work

  1 January 2012, by LÖWY Michael

  Review. Who Killed Che? How the CIA got away with murder. By Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith. New York: Or Books, 2011, 200 pages, $16 paperback.
  IN COMPELLING DETAIL, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the (…)

• Che Guevara (obituary)

  On Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy’s book on Che Guevara

  15 January 2010, by DRUCKER Peter, WAINER Kit Adam

  We are reproducing below two contributions, published in the US magazine “Against the Current”, debating Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy’s book on Che Guevara and Che’s legacy.
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  A Letter on Che
  — Peter Drucker
  NOW THAT I’VE (…)

• Che Guevara

  Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism

  25 August 2009, by LÖWY Michael

  IN AN ARTICLE published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy. It must be a heroic creation. We must inspire Indo-American socialism with our own reality, our own (…)

• Che Guevara (obituary)

  Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy

  14 January 2009, by Monthly Review

  * Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy, by Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy. Monthly Review Press. Translated by James Membrez.
  ISBN: 978-1-58367-177-1 $16.95 paperback 144 pp.
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  “Much has been written—and filmed and painted and sung and (…)

• Che Guevara (obituary)

  40 years dead but CHE LIVES

  October 2007, by ASHLEY Brian

  Sure, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, the Argentinean-born Cuban revolutionary, will be remembered around the world on 9 October, the 40^th anniversary of his death – but as what?
  A cult figure depoliticised and reinvented as a brand to sell anything from T-shirts to beer mugs and posters, or as an (…)

• Che Guevara

  “Neither Imitation nor Copy”: Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism

  June 2001, by LÖWY Michael

  Contribution presented for the first time at the yearly conference of the Foundation Ernesto Che Guevara, Italy, June 2001.
  In an article published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be (…)

• Che Guevara

  Che’s revolutionary humanism - ideals of Ernesto ’Che’ Guevara

  October 1997, by LÖWY Michael

  Global neoliberalism parades victoriously through our era, monopolizing its discourse and ideology. To confront the inherent perversity of the capitalist system’s universal domination we need, more than ever, alternative modes of thinking and acting that are universal, global, planetary. We need (…)

• Che Guevara (obituary)

  Che Guevara: The spark that does not die

  1 July 1997, by LÖWY Michael

  Years pass, fashions change, post-modernism succeeds modernism, democratorships replace dictatorships, and the Berlin Wall falls under the new Wall of Money. But thirty years later, Che Guevara’s message is still a glowing beacon to those who know that a better world is possible.
  There is (…)